Analysis

By Shamsul Islam

Jul 30, 2016

JS Bandukwala, a renowned academic, thinker and fighter for communal harmony in India has rightly expressed his anguish at the deteriorating relationship between RSS and Indian Muslims, which must be a cause for serious concern for all those wh...

Jul 30, 2016

Avinash Pandey
Gujarat is simmering again. Dalits are agitating over criminals indulging in criminality. These criminals, who are fondly referred to as “cow vigilantes” by the mainstream media, have recently stripped and flogge...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

Jul 30, 2016

Who should be blamed for the manner in which people in Kashmir and in Gujarat have been aggressively hit by government forces? Surely, don’t the people in both places have a democratic right to express themselves, pursue their respective ...

Jul 30, 2016

Begum Rokeya
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a Bengali writer, thinker, educationist, social activist, and advocate of women’s right. She was born on 9 December, 1880 at Mithapukur Upazil...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

Jul 30, 2016

Each time a terrorist incident takes place in any part of the world, it does not take long for it to be labelled as an act of Islamic terrorism. Little importance is given to the fact that Islam stands for peace and not for terrorism. Barely an...

By Hasan Zia Rizvi

Jul 21, 2016

Land Politics, Cow Politics, Hindu Undivided Family, Saffronisation of Education and History, Yoga, Hindutva Militancy which BJP wants to deeply root in India so that nobody in future could oppose them.

Jun 28, 2016

Kaleem Kawaja
We often hear that the condition of India’s Muslims is not improving because the community has no leaders. But if you examine in detail you will find that this is not true. Aside from the known leaders there...

Jun 28, 2016

Justice Rajinder Sachar
Scandalous, irresponsible and impervious to public interest - one would like to cry out at the situation where as reported in the press that there are 458 vacancies out of 1074, the full strength of High Court judge...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

Jun 28, 2016

Paradoxically, each time a Muslim is labelled as a “terrorist” in any part of the world, questions, doubts, speculations and also accusations start being raised practically all over the world. An impression is created as if the enti...

Jun 14, 2016

Hamid Ansari
A traveller from a distant land in Mashriq-al-aqsa comes to Maghrib-al Aqsa and marvels at his good fortune. His sense of history quickly reminds him that centuries earlier a great name from this land had travelled to India an...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

Jun 14, 2016

It is as yet too early to assume that the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will succeed in ensuring his party’s comeback during forthcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Nevertheless, speculations are being voiced on the prospects of h...

May 27, 2016

The press has reported on three rapes in Kerala in the last month. The one that everyone is talking about is the brutal rape and murder on April 28 of the Dalit law student, whose dismembered body was found by her mother in their home. The ones...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

May 27, 2016

Should recent results of four assembly elections be viewed as an important indicator of possible developments affecting this country’s politics in the future? Undeniably, a lot of noise has been made over the limited political appeal of t...

May 11, 2016

Dr M.D. Thomas
Culture is basically a social concept. When individuals or communities share their lives between them, culture spontaneously emerges. That is to say, culture is necessarily a composite culture. This fact applies to the entir...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

May 11, 2016

Political speculations and calculations cannot always be assumed to be correct. Nor can they be assumed to be totally free of some totally baseless logistics and may be even a few ill-conceived notions. Whenever there is the tendency to give ab...

By Amaresh Misra

May 03, 2016

What if the Left Front increases its vote share by even 2-3%...and Congress maintains its 9% vote share…the Left Front-Congress combine would garner nearly 50% of the vote …and sweep two-thirds of Bengal!

May 02, 2016

Mohammad Adeeb
Former Member of Parliament
Today, a wave of hatred has washed over the whole nation. The target is Muslims, as a community. An atmosphere of hostility seems to have engulfed the poor Indian Muslims. Obviously, they are vu...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

May 02, 2016

The current phase of assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal may serve as an important indicator of several possible developments. The key one is probably the success that national parties may be expected to...

Apr 11, 2016

Kancha Ilaiah andMohasina Anjum Ansari
Unouchability is a major social issue in India, even in the modern times. In the recent past it had also become an international issue. In 2001 at the United Nation’s Conference on Rac...

By Nilofar Suhrawardy

Apr 11, 2016

Ironically, of late a lot of noise has been made over nationalism of Indian Muslims who have chosen not to chant a controversial new slogan on ground of their religious beliefs. Quite a few extremist Hindu leaders have even stated that if they ...